""[Iranians] want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and they'd like to take us out as well. We're the Great Satan in their analogy and their misguided religion, and there is no way to appease them. And in defiance of every president since Jimmy Carter, the Iranian regime has pursued the means to acquire a nuclear weapon, so they could take that madness and that ideology to its full conclusion.""
""Mike Johnson's claim that Iranians follow a 'misguided religion' that leads them to hate America is a dangerous, irresponsible and hypocritical expression of bigotry that is completely inappropriate for the Speaker of the House," said the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in a statement calling for Johnson to retract his remarks."
Top Republican officials have made openly Islamophobic remarks while advocating for U.S. and Israeli military action against Iran. House Speaker Mike Johnson characterized Iranians as following a "misguided religion" seeking to destroy the U.S. and Israel, claiming Iran cannot be appeased and has pursued nuclear weapons to advance its ideology. These statements have been used throughout the ongoing conflict, during which over a thousand Iranian civilians have reportedly been killed. Muslim rights advocates, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have condemned this rhetoric as dangerous bigotry inappropriate for government leaders, comparing it to historical discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities.
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